There is a benefit to living in an old Rust Belt city like Detroit. It's much easier to establish what Hakim Bey calls "Permanent Autonomous Zones," because of cheap rent and low property values. The Fifth Estate office, for instance, only pays $200 a month including all utilities, and the Trumbull property which includes the two houses and a theater for about $30,000.
Widespread communal living generally comes about when a movement has reached a certain level of coherence. In certain areas, often adjacent to universities or historically bohemian districts, some people say, "Hey, we all have similar ideas, we like the same music, go to the same demos, we ought to have a communal household that expresses in day-to-day life our values--sharing, the economy of the gift rather than the commodity (although this is usually implied rather than explicitly stated), consensus decision-making." These living arrangements then easily become the locus of political action because of the number of revolutionaries grouped together. Activism becomes integrated into life from the moment of awakening rather than going to it like a job.
The last few years have been sobering. A certain humility has crept into our thinking and way of life. It doesn't look like much of what we advocate is on the agenda. The machine rules everywhere. We are in a period of the total domination of capital where even the pseudo-opposition of socialism has left the scene--capital's major 20th century rival. There is no more terra incognito. There is no longer any significant area, geography and thought that technology and capital hasn't extended itself into.
The idea that because we at the Fifth Estate make critiques of technologized capital doesn't mean that we can escape the consequences we describe. We are at a critical point now trying to preserve those ideas which are at risk from being pushed from human consciousness. The Appendix to Orwell's wonderful dystopian novel, 1984, is instructive. The idea of Newspeak was to remove words from language and thus the ideas they represent. I see our projects and journals as repositories of anti-authoritarian ideas that include an understanding that technology as manifested under industrial capitalism is a major factor in the domination of the human spirit.
At one level, the world is as depressing as it always has been, but that's not to say we can't find elements of joy in our resistance and within an alternative culture we build around it.
At the same time, we have to recognize we are in a precarious position. We are in a biological, social and spiritual (and I don't mean religious which I don't care about) decline. There's nothing left to hang our hats on that has substance. But people retain something in spite of this, even those immersed in the spectacle and commodity society. An inherent sociobiology rooted in our basic humanity manifests itself in our wanting to be communal figures like we were for 90 percent of human existence on the planet, even in things that may appear as dumb as a bowling league or a Star Trek convention. People want to do things together that are affirming and convivial no matter how much the culture of capital tries to domesticate us. We've been domesticated by the state; we've been domesticated by capital; we've been domesticated by technology, but there's a million instances where people act contrary to that. But people could forget how to do it. As it is, the Star Trek convention holds no capacity to effectively confront our domestication. Worse examples, such as rooting for sports teams or worse, wars, take the impulses of communality and manipulates them for commodity consumption or the needs of the imperial state.
That's why it's critically important for us to continue our projects on the margins of this society, even if it looks absolutely hopeless. For one thing, if we want to live out our lives as distant as possible from the dominant society, we better work hard to create an alternative culture and communities, hopefully ones that have the potential to eventually confront the dominant paradigms that currently rule us.
We continue to fight against the worst excesses of technology and the empire and we hope that something will occur--some incident or some sense of what the futility and harm of this world does to everything and everybody will impel people to move in a direction that reasserts human community and our own humanity. Maybe it will happen; maybe it won't.
"Anarchy is natural; everything else is learned," I've heard said; and the cooperative forms that nurtured every form of pre-historical, pre-state, pre-technological society gave them the capacity to exist. In that sense, you can "prove" that anarchism is a clumsy way of enunciating the 'Old Ways' as poet Gary Snyder calls them ancient wisdom and sensibilities about how to live on the planet and with each other. This doesn't mean, as dishonest opponents of this perspective have charged (and that includes not only Murray Bookchin, but Noam Chomsky, as well), that I or we or the Fifth Estate are advocating "going back to the caves."
It means looking at the ideas that were operative in societies that did much better than us in living their lives. I think for our bioregion, the Ottawas, for instance, had a society where the major aspects of social and personal relationships were worthy of emulation. The culture brought here by the European invaders was a disaster for both the carriers of it as well as their victims. Unfortunately, we are the inheritors of that culture which is a planet eater and not the one which knew how to live in harmony with the earth.
The task of resurrecting the Old Ways as a basis for a new world is challenging, but also rewarding. Actually, we have no other choice if we have any hopes for our children and the future of the planet.

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Introduction

Katu Veo, wastelanders! Welcome to the Lost Holotapes channel, where we discuss history of Fallout regions. Today we will start talking about the settlements and factions of the Appalachia Wasteland, the territory of Western Virginia, presented to us in the truly first multiplayer installment of Fallout – Fallout 76.
Despite the scandalous nature of its release, the abundance of bugs and the flow of fair criticism, the history of the region itself and the study of the world is a golden seed, although it is incredibly confusing. The history of the Appalachian region is the most dramatic and complex among all the others. Causal relationships, motivations, and personalities of historical characters, complex political games of major factions– it is more like reading a book. Moreover, the form of narration in the form of left notes, holotapes, and terminal entries turns Fallout 76 into a truly detective game. And I adore it for that. I spent days sticking notes on the wall, connecting them with red threads, trying to recreate the most accurate picture of what happened. And I will start sharing my interpretation today. I assure you will not find a more accurate and complete history of the Appalachian wasteland even on the wiki.

Appalachia - Geography

But let's start with the general – with the geography of the region. In real life, it occupies the territory of three states – West Virginia, Virginia and Maryland. At the same time, the developers went really far in trying to distort the real prototype of the territory and decided to turn it all into West Virginia, leaving almost nothing from the other two states. A very strange decision to perceive, given that all states exist in the world of Fallout. More critically, the cities of exclusively West Virginia were used as prototypes in principle, and they have their locations changed in relation to each other. Watoga, Huntersville in real life are in the western part, Morgantown is much norther of Grafton, and Sutton is under Flatwoods.
Appalachia is divided into 6 unique sub-regions in terms of habitat:
The Forest is rich in vegetation and with relatively calm fauna, located on Allegheny Plateau.
Toxic Valley is an area where rivers and lakes have turned into acidic radioactive baths and fumaroles.
Ash Heap is a former mining region in which ash and combustion products are constantly released into the atmosphere, making the region very difficult to settle in,
The Mire is a swampy area that has turned into a jungle, shrouded in poisonous fumes and inhabited by extremely aggressive fauna. It has a border with the Capital Wasteland that passes through the Raven Rock Mountains
Savage Divide is an elevated mountain region formed directly by the Appalachian Mountains,
Cranberry Bog is characterized by an abundance of bizarre mutated flora and progressive erosion, turning the land in the region into trenches.
The wasteland borders the Capitol Wasteland to the east along the Appalachian Trail – along its northern part, inside the state of Maryland. On the western side, the wasteland is bounded by the Ohio, Big Sandy and Tag Fork Rivers, which are state borders at the same time.

Antebellum Appalachia

Before moving on to an exciting post-war detective story, we need to discuss some of the exposure of the region until October 2077. The main leitmotif of the pre-war plot is the desperate struggle of the proletariat against capitalism. Widespread robotization and automation deprived people of jobs and livelihoods, which caused Appalachia to be in a state of local civil war on the eve of the Great War.
While the Sino-American War in Alaska was going on, the hardworking regions languished in the rear. Industrial enterprises inflate the production rate, lower wages, force labor to overwork, reduce all costs associated with production safety and everything like that. The cabal is no different. But work is work, especially in such difficult times. And, of course, no one cares about such trifles as environmental pollution. For example, with the permission of the government, Grafton Steel mill openly drains production waste into the rivers and lakes of the northern part of the region, which in the future will contribute to the drainage of the region, the destruction of its entire flora and its transformation into a Toxic Valley.
However, things get much worse when capitalists begin to introduce robots into enterprises everywhere, depriving people of jobs. In addition, diligent mining companies, in particular Hornwright Industrial, began to demolish the south of the region, blowing up mines for faster ore extraction, as well as cynically producing a local natural landmark – Blair Mount. It competed with its main competitor, the Garrahan Company, for the volume of ore production. Because of such activity, living in the region has become impossible: underground fires, incredibly polluted air, poisoning and soil erosion. The town of Welch was badly affected in particular. People, mostly miners, staged a riot. Demonstrations and rallies were brutally suppressed, for example, strikebreaker robots were sent to the city of Beckley. The rebels even organized guerrilla operations. It is noteworthy that at the heart of this struggle is a real historical prototype – the Battle of Blair Mount, which took place in 1921 as part of the miners' war for their rights. During this uprising, 10-15 thousand miners fought for five days against an army of private detectives and police officers, until the president and the military intervened. An epic story described in detail in Wikipedia - I recommend reading it.
In addition to the aggravation of the situation in the mining region, uprisings occurred in other parts of Appalachia. Thus, the robotic city of the future Watoga, built in 2042, the construction of which destroyed jobs and the local economy, was subjected to a terrorist attack. A leading specialist timidly launched a virus that forced all robots to become aggressive towards people. The army of protectrons and assaultrons staged a massacre in the city the day before the start of the Great War, leaving the residents with no chance of survival other than by fleeing the city.
The reason why the Cranberry Swamp is so radioactive and mutanized is another mining company – AMC (Atomic Mining Company), whose headquarters was located in Watoga and which used nuclear charges to extract ultracite in the region. AMC has agreed with the Poseidon coal-fired power plant in Charleston to process the ultracite at their facility. Because of this, the employees of the station rebelled and came out with a rally. The arrived military used the gas patented by HalluciGen, Inc to suppress the uprisings to disorient the protesters, but the gas turned them into manic psychos who staged ultra-violence. The savage crowd tore apart both the soldiers and the authorities inside the station. Again, this happened shortly before the war and there was no one from the authorities to respond to the incident.

The Great War

Well, we are finally coming to the most delicious – the history of the region after the Great War. Working with the lore of the region is a completely detective theory. It was very difficult to reconstruct the history, as a huge part of it had to be built on logical chains, rather than be guided solely by the actual data from the notes. Moreover, I found developer errors and some events mutually exclusive. There are also a lot of errors and contradictions on the official wiki, so you are unlikely to find such a complex story that is being told here. What is also noteworthy is that the game is still being updated, and Bethesda with new updates introduces a bunch of new historical lore, and also allows itself to change the lore already released earlier. Therefore, it is quite possible that this article will be updated over time with the release of new Fallout 76 updates.

Vault Tec Vaults

By tradition, we begin to discuss the region with vaults. According to the game itself and the register of Vault Tec University there are 6 vaults in the region.
Vault 51 is located near the town of Friendly. Its experiment was to identify the best overseer from a motley number of candidates, of which there were 52 people, using the ZAX supercomputer. People arrive at the vault within a week before the bombs fall. One of the first arrivals was Sergeant Robert Baker, who was appointed responsible for advising ZAX on the choice of the method of appointing an overseer.
Vault 63. So far, the location is not available to players, and there is no lore associated with it either. So neither its fate nor the experiment is known.
Vault 76 near Flatwoods. One of the few control vaults that was supposed to remain closed for 25 years. Its inhabitants are brought up in an atmosphere of exclusivity so that they can “make America great again”.
Vault 79. The entire gold reserve of America from Fort Knox was brought inside. The Secret Service detachment of 120 people remained with the gold reserve.
Vault 94. The experiment was to test how the most peaceful group could adapt to possible aggressive groups during the post-apocalypse. For this purpose, a peaceful religious commune was chosen as residents.
Vault 96 is one of the cryogenic research centers. Thousands of animals and 5 scientists were placed in it. Their task was to conduct genetic research, the number of which was determined by the quota system issued by the supercomputer’s mainframe. Quotas were constantly increasing in number, and if a scientist did not carry out all the research, then the system would have them killed.
(Fallout 3) Burkittville Vault. Its number, experiment, and fate are not known. Until Vault 107 appears in the Fallout lore, we will use this number. Although it is mentioned in the Fallout 3 lore, Burkittsville falls more into the territory of the Appalachian wasteland.

Shelters

When the Great War began, a huge number of people found themselves in various shelters. I would say that no other game in the Fallout series tells in such detail about the first days of the wondrous new world.
Riverside Manor. The pre-war mansion of the Rivers Family, consisting of Shannon Rivers, her husband Frederick Rivers and her daughter Olivia Rivers. Shannon was an actress and played the superhero Mistress of Mysteries in movies. Frederick was an excellent engineer who turned the basement of the mansion into a training camp with all the necessary equipment.
Groups of people met the war at the high-cost ski resorts of Pleasant Valley and Spruce Knob.
There were three missile silos in the region: Alpha, Beta and Charlie, which were supposed to bring down their arsenal on China. As a consequence of the fact that there was a fabulous general in Alpha who did not read the instructions, spent his rocket launch card and entered the wrong code; in Beta the general was absent from the station at all; and Gamma was evacuated before the start of the War due to a false radiation leak alarm, missiles were not fired at China from Appalachia.
Vault-Tec Simulation at Vault Tec University. Students could train to become overseers. Before the war, the overseer was supposed to be a student Drew Collingsworth, who wanted to conduct an experiment with edible pasta, which was supposed to replace food supplies. However, the dean of the university wanted to conduct his own experiment and ordered to add a slow poison to the food, that could destroy blood vessels, and test people's reaction to the death from food. He was counting on a riot and the subsequent evacuation. When the bombs fell, no one in the simulation realized what had happened. However, one of them died on the same day.
Kerwood Mine. Since AMC was developing ultracite by nuclear underground blasts in the region, on October 17, during another underground explosion, the old mine collapsed, killing 17 people and burying 32 more. They met the War underground.
Glassed Caverns is a mine of AMC for the extraction of ultracite. During the War, there were miners in it, but the mine itself withstood the bomb blasts outside.
Allegheny Asylum. A psychiatric hospital closed with a scandal, to which teachers and students from Watoga came for an excursion.
Burrows. Old underground catacombs, sewers, and storm shelters under the city of Harpers Ferry. Even before the war, many squatters lived there, who were constantly kicked out. During the war, many residents of Harpers Ferry took refuge there.
Whitesprings Bunker. A bunker for congressional representatives and the political establishment. About 200 people were evacuated in the summer of 2077. Among the evacuees was Thomas Eckhart, the Minister of Agriculture, who was in Enclave, as well as Jefferson Gray, his right–hand man and an operative of Enclave. The bunker was controlled via MODUS, a supercomputer with powerful artificial intelligence, an analogue of ZAX.
Arktos Pharma is a pharmaceutical and genetic laboratory. When the bombs fell, the scientists continued to do research and genetic experiments, refusing to evacuate.
Eastern Regional Penitentiary is a prison where convicts were wearing collars that could explode if they tried to escape. The management came up with this method of control, wanting to save money on guards and even on the maintenance of the prison, including repairs of the walls. Among the prisoners was Harrison Malone, a recidivist and the leader of a robbery gang.
Sons of Dane Compound of The Sons of Dane who are a group of anti-government survivalists led by Dane Rogers. They moved to the camp on October 20.
There are two bases of the Chinese Liberation Army in the region. There was Mama Dolce canned food factory in Morgantown, which was a cover for the Fujinia Intelligence and Research Base. There was also a base called The Deep, located deep in the mountain range. The Chinese military inside the bases did not know that China would treacherously drop bombs on the States. So, they were caught off guard themselves.
Six members of Lieutenant Elizabeth Taggerdy's detachment, called Taggerdy Thunder, who took part in military exercises, found shelter in Spruce Knob Lake Cave.
A Buddhist temple Palace of the Winding Path was built in the mountains, which even before the war was supposed to become a commercial asylum for the New Age movement. For a better spiritual experience, a special narcotic gas was let through the ventilation. Actually, the attendees of this center survived the war in it.
The Whitesprings Resort is a pre–war ultra-expensive resort and a golf club standing above the Enclave bunker. Unrelated in any way to the politicians who evacuated to the bunker beneath, 96 people of guests and staff took refuge in the main building of the resort during the war.
A couple of years before the start of the war, West Tek company built a laboratory near the town of Huntersville. For a while, they were kidnapping people from the town and were experimenting on them. In particular, they created the Grafton Monster in the laboratory. By 2076, experiments had reached a new level and the whole town of Huntersville was infected. When the inhabitants began to mutate into super mutants, the city was quarantined, and the military took the city into cordon. At the very center of West Tek at the time of the War, the scientific staff took refuge.
In the city of Berkeley Springs, residents of the city are evacuated to the Berkeley Springs clinic.
A detachment of US Army “Firebats” squad was stationed inside Monongah Power Plant to guard the facility.
Another group of US Army soldiers takes refuge in the Wendigo Cave.
People also take refuge in Aaronholt Homestead, New River Gorge Resort, Haven Church, Dolly Sods children's boy scouts camp.
In Western Maryland Correctional Facility in Cumberland, MD, prisoners and guards are sheltering during the war.
Before the War there was a major anti–government anarchists group in the region called Free States who have completely lost confidence in the American government. They were paranoid about the government's Vault Tec program, and for good reason. Even before the war, they began to collect supplies, weapons and build their own bunkers on the territory of the future Mire. Despite the pressure of politicians, police harassment and conflicts with the administration of the city of Harpers Ferry, which became their focal point, they were able to predict quite accurately when the apocalypse will occur, and evacuated in advance to their bunkers. So far, 11 bunkers are known: the bunker of Singh family (Abbie's Bunker), of Niraj and Abbie Singh, father and daughter who were talented radio mechanics; the Bunker of Raleigh Clay who was the leader of the Free States; Sam Blackwell Bunker. Sam Blackwell is a former US Congressman and Raleigh Clay's best friend. Before the war, he put sticks in the wheels of mining companies, preventing them from carrying out robotization, and also revealed the corruption scheme of the then Minister of Agriculture, Thomas Eckhart. But politics is politics, and by denigrating him publicly for his connection with Free States, as well as threatening violence against his daughter, the ill–wishers forced Sam to hide in his bunker long before the war; The Sunday Brothers Cabin, which belonged to the Sunday Brothers - JD and Jesus; Ella Aimes' Bunker. Ella Aimes is a chief medical officer of Free States; Cora's Bunker (Abandoned Bunker), the Carson Family Bunker, Jeremiah's Bunker (Ransacked Bunker), as well as the mentioned Emma's Bunker north of Mt. Thunder Power Plant, Eddie Hayes Bunker and Gavin McCullogh Cabin.
Orwell Orchard Bunker. The Orwell family of farmers built it under their own orchard and equipped it in a way that some Vault Tec vaults could not afford for themselves. There was a gym, a swimming pool, a bar, a projector room, many rooms of various functions, high ceilings. And it was despite the fact that the farm was basically bankrupt.
An employee of Vault Tec, who was promised a place in a vault, but later got a rejected, dug out a Makeshift Vault.
Near Vault 51 there was a small Vault Tec Bunker, which was used as a sales office. When the bombs fell, there were sales managers inside.
In the region, there was an underground secret Enclave Research Station J in the northwestern part of the Forest. This center was a large multi-level underground base.
A group of scientists of Bysshe Company survived the war in a railway tunnel near Harpers Ferry Tunnels, which they used as a laboratory for the study of water samples from the Potomac River.

Cities

The region was not badly affected by the direct bombing, so many cities survived. Many residents did not even go anywhere. Again, due to the fact that the history of the region does not exceed 25 years, the exposition of the cities is given in great detail. Thus, at least the following cities survived during the war:
Charleston. The capital of West Virginia. Immediately after the War, the Charleston Emergency Government was formed, headed by Tanner Holbrook, the man who became acting governor, and Abigail Poole, the acting mayor of Charleston. These two do not get along well with each other and often make contradictory decisions. An autonomous group of volunteer Responders is also being formed in the city. Their goal was to save and help those who are in need. Abigail was a friend to them, but Tanner tried to ignore them, being carried away by flirting with political circles. The leader of the Respondents is Maria Chavez.
Morgantown. The city, the center of which is the University of Vault Tec and which largely consists of students, fell into anarchy after the War. For some time, it is kept under the control of the tough hand of the Sheriff Mayfield and the Charleston Government.
Lewisburg. In general, the city is experiencing the apocalypse perfectly thanks to the "Heaven Gardens" on the roofs of houses. With their help, residents get an overview of the terrain, the opportunity to breathe fresh air and grow food. In addition, the city lives with constant festivals and competitions, which keeps its morale at a high level.
Harpers Ferry. A city at the intersection of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers.
Huntersville is a city where residents were turned into super mutants. During the war, they allegedly broke through the cordon and massacred the military. They remained to live in the city though.
The cities of Flatwoods, Clarksburg, Helvetia, Sutton and Beckley have also survived. Although there is no direct evidence confirming the survival of the latter, it can be assumed that the city survived by the presence of erected scaffolding and all sorts of structures linking dilapidated buildings.
An unnamed Bog Town in the vicinity of Watoga, which because of it turned out to be abandoned before the war and became a haven for squatters.
There is no information whether the cities of Monongah, Welch, Point Pleasant, Grafton, Summersville and Tanagra survived the war. Watoga fell before the War. Tanagra is the only fictional city among all of them. Of course, we are talking about the cities that are represented in the game itself, although conditionally many locations and settlements belong to a certain city in the lore. For example, the WV Lumber Co is located in the city of Friendly, and Mega Mansions are in the city of Bramwell.

The Great War

On October 23, 2077, a hail of nuclear warheads hit the world. Cities have been destroyed, millions have died, and society has fallen.

History of the region: 2077-2082

2077

We have reviewed the list of settlements that survived the nuclear holocaust. Now let us see how the situation developed in the future. End of 2077:
When the bombs fell, evacuation began, and the commune headed to Vault 94 on two buses. Unfortunately, one of them was late, and an undercover employee of the Vault Tec embedded in the commune had to close the geardoors, dooming the second bus to death. Nevertheless, the group thrived; they had a GECK that kept their internal farm working.
After the bombs fell, the Sons of Dane got out. Celebrating their survival, they were loud having fun with beer and music every evening.
Due to the loss of the bomb launch card, the Alpha silo was no longer useful. The fabulous general gathered all the personnel and led them to "serve their country" in some other place. A group of military personnel left the Alpha Silo.
Since the general never arrived at Beta Silo, the entire station staff decided to evacuate on their own.
October 29. Taggerdy makes contact with her longtime comrade in the service, Captain Roger Maxson, who is waiting out the nuclear winter with his renegade division at the Mariposa Base in California.
October 30. Scientists are leaving West Tek, having presumably neutralized the vats of FEV.
The subjects in the VTU Simulation learn about the autopsy results of a deceased colleague and realize that they are all poisoned. They demand from the overseer Drew to call for help and urgently stop the simulation. When they cannot get any response from the outside, they think that the overseer Drew did not call for help consciously, although in fact, everyone outside the complex was no longer up to simulation. Simulation participants raise a riot and after November 2, having failed to get to Drew, who barricaded himself in his room, they die. Drew dies of starvation too, though.
In addition, after November 2, a group that took refuge in the New River Gorge resort dies.
November 5. A Horizon plane crashes near Helvetia.
By November 6, the last miners in the flooded Kerwood mine are dying.
November 11. An early-formed raider group attacks the clinic in Berkeley Springs, which was already in a state of agony with a huge number of refugees and wounded, a meager supply of provisions, medicines, gradually deserting staff and generators failing. The raiders kill three people, steal the last supplies and on November 14th the last group of 5 people leave the clinic for Charleston.
In November, Pleasant Valley asks for help from Charleston, but the Emergency Government by order of Tanner refuses to help, saying there are not enough supplies for them either. This causes strong dissatisfaction among people of Pleasant Valley.
On November 21, at Vault 51, on Baker's advice, ZAX holds a democratic election for an overseer. But it fails because people vote mostly for themselves.
On November 28, the second elections of overseer fail, even though parties have been created. Robert inadvertently tells ZAX that the best leader is the one who can best prove himself during a crisis.
Also in November, a wendigo called Nightstalker, attracted by loud music, drinking and dancing from the Sons of Dane, kills the members of the group one by one during several weeks until the group becomes completely exterminated.
On December 1, the sales managers in the Vault Tec bunker left it with the arrival of cold weather in the hope of reaching Harpers Ferry.
December 12. Skig’s Gang raiders seize Haven Church killing refugees. Maybe it was the same gang that raided Berkeley Springs.
On the same day, Firebats squad at the Monongah Power Plant manages to contact the command, which requested half of the squad. About 20 people remained at the station.
Also during these three months, various shelters died: Wendigo Cave, Glassed Caverns and Dolly Sods. From the latter, the refugees left for Harpers Ferry and Berkeley Springs, as long as it made sense to go there.
Burrows beneath Harpers Ferry is turning into an independent settlement.
Taggerdy Thunder leaves the cave where they met the war, to the training Camp Venture, where they are planning to survive the winter.
There is an armed seizure of power in the Whitesprings Bunker by members of the Enclave, partly of whom the evacuated group consisted. All non-Enclave members were executed. Thus, the bunker became a full-fledged base of Enclave managed by the Minister of Finance.
In the Maryland prison, a gang of former convicts was formed under the leadership of Roper, the head of security. The gang is called Free Radicals.
Survivors in the Palace of the Winding Path create their own religious hippie cult.
The Allegheny Asylum is turning into a full-fledged settlement. They even set up their own farm with chickens and a cow.
Bog Town becomes a haven for various gangs of raiders who periodically try to pillage deserted Watoga.
Makeshift Vault did not have time to be equipped properly before the war, so it died or was abandoned soon after the bombing.

2078

January 14. The siege of the Monongah Power Plant begins. An unnamed group of raiders attacks the facility, kills several soldiers, and hangs their corpses on trees.
On January 23, the third attempt of elections in Vault 51 fails. ZAX completely abandons the idea of voting and begins to generate crises, which, according to Baker's wise words, should determine the real strong leader.
February 2. The second attack on the Monongah Power Plant. 15 people remain alive.
(Fallout 3) Before February 13, a group of Burkittsville Cannibals appears near the Burkittsville Vault, setting ambushes on everyone who tries to get to it. They were so ferocious that they wore skins of the people they’ve killed. As they will not appear in history anymore, we can assume that they will die out after 2078.
February 21. There is a crisis in Vault 51 – ZAX forces the representatives of the upper class among the residents to sleep on the benches in clothes without mattresses and other amenities. One of the residents, Aiden Higgins, goes crazy and, using homemade explosives, tries to blow up the walls of the vault to get out, but he blows up only himself eventually.
February 24. A gang of Skigs in the Haven Church is killed when is attacked by feral ghouls.
Around March 2-3, ZAX arranges a talent show. It changes the rules on the go, putting as a prize the opportunity to sleep in beds, and not on the floor in one room. Of course, professional artists won. Because of ZAX, the tension between people begins to grow. During the year, it constantly conducts such crises, pitting people against each other and driving them mad: it cheats during gambling games, giving victory and food rations to newcomers, it deprives residents of healthy sleep and caffeine, and so on. ZAX also destroys people's relationships, allegedly giving out their secret affairs, provoking infidelity, and even editing the content of their correspondence to give a more negative background to its contents.
March 12. The third attack on the Monongah Power Plant. Twelve soldiers remain.
After March 12, thescientists of Arktos Pharma descend into the underground laboratory complex after the incessant invasion of feral ghouls and the threatening radiation levels. However, ghouls managed to break into the complex, too. When the group tried to repair the turrets, there was a failure, and turrets started shooting people. Thus, at the lowest level – in the generator room - the last eight people locked themselves in, and subsequently died, unable to get out or wait for help.
At the same time in March, raiders from Bog Town attack the Allegheny Asylum, take supplies and kill animals on the farm. A group of residents decides that they have nothing more to catch here and splits into two. One goes to Monongah, and the other goes to Harpers Ferry. Considering that Monongah was never resettled after the war, the first group never reached the town.
March 29. Melody Larkin, a police officer in the city of Morgantown, reports to Charleston that Sheriff Mayfield is already starting to open fire on raging and marauding students who are tearing up the city for supplies and fighting among themselves. Later, at the request of Abigail Poole, she moves to Charleston as a representative of Morgantown in the city parliament.
All sorts of people are slowly coming to the Camp Venture at the call of Taggerdy, who wants to expand the squad. Since Venture was a pre–war training camp for military, and the Taggerdy squad are not boy scouts, those who came are forced to undergo a fighter-training course for initiation.
In the spring, the raiders that terrorize the Monongah Power Plant create Ammo Dump camp.
On May 25, the fourth and final attack on the Monongah Power Plant takes place. Only nine soldiers remain alive, who decide to leave. Raiders seize the station for looting. The troop of soldiers, Firebats, was never mentioned again. Most likely, they either died in the wasteland or dispersed.
On June 3, one of the residents of Vault 51 finds a gun planted by ZAX.
Around June 12, the first murder takes place in Vault 51 – someone strangled a nurse.
According to many records, the winter of 2077-2078 in the region was incredibly harsh. So much so that the last snow melted only in July. The winter has caused people to become savage in the mountains. They staged a massacre among themselves for resources, descended into murder and cannibalism. As a result, they became raiders. A gang of Cutthroats, led by Harland McClintock, is formed in Pleasant Valley. Also a gang of Gourmands is formed at Spruce Knob Resort, who continued to engage in cannibalism even when the food situation stabilized. Actually, they were feared in the region for such atrocity. They had Morris Stevens in charge with his wife Edie.
July 8. Raiders attack Riverside Mansion, the refuge of the Rivers family. They tried to rape Olivia, but Shannon, being trained for the role of a superhero, beat them all, and killed a couple altogether. Something changes in Shannon's conscious from the experience, and she decides to find a noble use for her skills. She takes the image of a superheroine she played in the movies, and sets herself the task of fighting bad people in a new harsh world. Olivia begins a training course under the supervision of her mother.
On July 27, there is a shooting in the cafeteria of Vault 51, but before anyone got killed, Robert Baker managed to neutralize the aggressor. Baker accuses ZAX for the weapon it provided, to which it states that reducing the number of candidates will make it easier to choose a leader.
August 1. ZAX let buzzing flies into the residential sector to annoy vaulteers. After 72 hours of unsuccessful attempts to kill them, the residents managed to lose three more people.
On August 3, there is a conflict between the Chambers couple and their lovers, who were also lovers of each other. ZAX blocks all 4 in one room and issues weapons. As a result of a quarrel that escalated into a fight, everyone dies. When Ruben Gill and Helena Marks enter the room, Ruben notices that they will now get more food and receives ZAX recognition.
August 6. Crisis number 37. ZAX allegedly poisons Helena Marks, the only person who was the psychological and moral anchor for the refuges, and also the object of Ruben's desire. ZAX gives Ruben a weapon, and he starts violence. ZAX also issued weapons to other residents and pitted them against each other. Blood flowed, and the only survivor in the slaughter was Ruben. In fact, Vault 51 ceased to exist on that day.
At the same time, on August 6, Tanner receives a report from his personal scouts about what kind of bloodthirsty raiders the residents of Pleasant Valley have turned into.
Later in August, Shannon Rivers helps a caravan at Lewisburg repel a raider attack.
Around September, after a bunch of systems had already stopped working in the Orwell Orchard Bunker, radiation began to leak inside. During a family quarrel about the exodus, Ian Orwell locked his wife in a cage, but she managed to escape, killing her husband.
On October 23, a year after the War, Vault 94 opens. Residents begin to establish gardens outside the vault, and send ambassadors to the wastelands in order to establish friendly contact with the settlements.
In November, Shannon Rivers finds four orphans in the garage of her mansion: three girls, including Clarissa and Eve Devoir and a boy – Brody Torrence. Of these, she takes only girls into her care, and drives the boy away.
November 20. Despite the fact that many of the ambassadors of Vault 94 died after reaching the raiders, one of the ambassadors establishes contact with Harpers Ferry. The mayor of the city, Miranda Vox, sends a squad of four people to the vault. However, this squad has become too paranoid from the fact that there are no weapons in the vault, and that they are peacefully greeted. They thought they were walking into a trap and at some point their nerves gave out. They open fire on the residents and kill them all. Then, they find GECK and, being convinced that it is a governmental machine for controlling consciousness, shoot it, which leads to a new nuclear explosion. New radioactive fallout, combined with GECK fertilizers, covered the region and caused an incredible boom in mutation of flora and fauna. The region began to turn into a dangerous jungle, and it will later be called the Mire.